About two months ago I took the MSF course that Ohio offers. Right after I had a discussion with my wife about buying a bike. Basically I was advised that if I did so without a lot of out of pocket cash, and using assets I already owned, I wouldn't hear a peep from her.

About a month and a half ago I saw an ad on Craigslist for a 2006 Suzuki Boulevard S40, guy I bought it from said he had some health issues and needed to get rid of it. Turns out those health issues were serious, so I made him a trade + cash deal he couldn't turn down.

When I drove home with her in the back of my truck, I was freakin' excited. A two hour drive just to go and get her, and man was it a pain in the ass getting her out of the back of the truck. Had to call a friend over because I wasn't going to try to ride it down the ramps, that's a good way to lose your ramps.

As I found out, someone had already done an airbox delete, installed a cone filter, installed a cone breather, appears to have replaced the carb, etc. There's an AGM battery in there that is just great, and there are battery tender leads on it, though I've never needed to use it... so I use them for something else, now.

Just a couple from each angle to note how she was when I first got her.

So one of the first things I wanted to do was make sure that I could ride her to work with khakis on because this little lady was my getting around town bike for the next year.

I installed a DEI Titanium wrap on it, but in the meantime I also removed the terrible shield that someone had put on the muffler.

In order to install them I had to relocate my rear blinker lights. In order to do that, I decided I needed to wire extensions in the right way... So I grabbed some waterproof connectors that I had left over from the last electrical project I did on the pickup, and went to town.

And they were done, for the moment!

I like shooting her good sides

I did eventually get the exhaust off, painted, and put back on. It came out pretty good. I also installed a heatshield further down on the muffler to protect dress pants.

So one other thing I needed, a brighter head lamp. The one it had was not amazing... off to amazon I go. I went full LED on my F150, I know headlight tech has come a LONG way in a short period, so I went looking for a good H4 bulb to install.